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Equally successful were the educational efforts of the National Youth Administration. Led by social worker and lay minister Aubrey Williams, the NYA approached educating young people from a more radical perspective than the CCC. The NYA was also dealing with impoverished people (95 percent were from families on relief), most of whom had not gone beyond the eighth grade. For Williams it was important that the NYA give these people "a decent break" and educate them about the "palpably unfair distribution of wealth" in the United States. Williams was committed to using the NYA to help women and blacks, and he created a Division of Negro Affairs, which ultimately assisted some three hundred thousand African American youths. Although given a slim budget, the NYA provided cash supplements to approximately 6-10 percent of all high-school students, as well as approximately 12 percent of all college students. With NYA...
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